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Maruja Mallo
The Life and Art of Maruja Mallo Maruja Mallo was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Viveiro, Spain. As a member of the Generation of 1927 within the Spanish avant-garde movement, she studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Her early work often featured themes of urban entertainments, sports, and machinery, utilizing bright colors and complex overlapping arrangements. During the 1920s, her paintings explored
subjects such as bullfighters, women from Madrid, and towns full of sun. In the 1930s, her artistic direction shifted toward surrealism, incorporating geometric visual language and themes ranging from fruits to agricultural structures. Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mallo fled to Portugal and later moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. During her time in exile, she lived between Uruguay and Buenos Aires, and also traveled…